[ExI] plain text was Singularity Summit 2010: Just a Week Away!

[Ryan Rawson]

An innocent question... Don't speech readers handle the HTML/text
stuff fairly well now?  If I had screen read my gmail of that
particular email I would have heard the email only once.



On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Jim Stevenson <jims at eos.arc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hi.
>
>
> Is the attached html really of any use to those who read with speech?
>
> --
>
> Please answer in plain text, not mime attached html.
>
> Thanks much again as always.
> Jim
>
> Please forgive if you really want to attach html
> and are using its features.
>
> Do you know that you are posting in mime attached duplicate html?
> Can you please explain why the mime attached html?
> If so, may I please ask  which mail program is creating these html attachments,
> under which OS, and why?
> I am absolutely certain that it is not my mail program, or anything on my end,
> though your mail program may hide them from you.
> This is why others may not have pointed out the mime attached html problem.
>
> Your mime attached html post, which I have appended,
> is exactly what I received.
>
> Are you using html to display anything other than plain text?
> Unless you really are using the html features,
> the defaults should be set to both post and answer in plain text,
> or uuencode, if plain text is not an option.
> your answer mode should also be set to
> answer in plain text, or answer in uuencode,
> not to answer in kind.
>
> I am most concerned about viruses in unintended attachments.
>
> If you must quote me, please put your comments first.
> I have already listened to mine.
>
> I read email with speech,
> So it is not possible to scroll past the html and quotes
> without listening to them again,
> and the mime code after the header is not speech friendly.
> to quickly get to the new information.
> The mime attached html is far from speech friendly!
>
> --
>
> Thanks much again as always.
>
>
> --
>
> Jim Stevenson Ph.D
> experimental psychologist, conducting sonification research,
>  & certified master Ericksonian clinical hypnotherapist.
> jims at eos.arc.nasa.gov
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